Chapter 24 The Spiritual Moon Spring, Resurrected!
Xiao Jiu, is it smoking?
Suanni's first thought was that this unreliable system had finally broken down. However, when he noticed the airflow around him, his eyes narrowed, and he grabbed Taotie's head and rushed forward.
The system was too busy, and the items in Xiao Jiu's own shop were too expensive, so he was always running around naked.
At this moment, countless white smoke billowed from every inch of Xiao Jiu's skin, and red mist kept seeping into his body, making the scene look extremely eerie.
However, the gazes of the Suanni and Taotie gradually became subtle.
Suanni: "System, do you know that some creatures in certain worlds can actively absorb energy?"
System: [What kind of time is this to be doing science popularization?!]
The Suanni interrupted it: "Let me finish. In some worlds where I and the Taotie live, there exists something called 'cultivation'."
"In your words, whether it's humans or plants and animals, they all use a kind of energy when cultivating, which we call 'spiritual energy'."
The Suanni looked at Xiao Jiu and said with certainty, "This white smoke is spiritual energy, and it's spiritual energy with an extremely high concentration."
The system was bewildered.
[You mean... the host's body is emitting spiritual energy?]
Suanni also found it strange: "Yes, to be honest, this is the first time I've ever seen something like this."
They knew beforehand that Xiao Jiu could absorb blood mist from the air, but the system thought it was just eating.
Ordinary zombies eat people, but their hosts consume blood essence; the logic makes sense.
From the system's perspective, this blood essence is just a source of high-energy food. Just like some zombies evolve by constantly eating, it thinks that Xiao Jiu is the same.
Suanni and Taotie felt that Xiao Jiu's behavior of "absorbing blood energy" was very similar to the breathing exercises of cultivators, both of which were ways to train and strengthen their bodies.
Suanni: "When mortals first absorb spiritual energy, they forcibly expel impurities from their bodies so that the body can better accommodate the spiritual energy later. But Xiao Jiu's case..."
All these years have passed, and I've never heard of anyone absorbing blood essence and filtering it into spiritual energy to release.
Even the Suanni couldn't explain it.
The system was extremely anxious: [What do we do now?]
Suanni thought for a while before saying, "If we consider the situation of cultivation, it's best not to disturb him, or even touch him, otherwise these energies might get out of control."
Taotie nodded in agreement.
So none of the three dared to slack off, and they kept a distance from Xiao Jiu while carefully watching her.
This time, Xiao Jiu absorbed the red mist for an unusually long time.
Five days later, as the sun was about to cover the entire sky and night was about to fall, Xiao Jiu woke up.
"How are you feeling? Is anything hurting?"
"Awooo!"
"The little guy looks so energetic, he must be alright, right?"
Xiao Jiu nodded: "It's okay."
Henggongyu, Taotie, and Suanni were all taken aback.
Suanni: "System, come out quickly! Little Nine can talk now!"
System: [My host can talk!]
However, despite saying that, Xiao Jiu didn't speak so fluently before; most of the time, she would just stammer and repeat what the other person said.
But this time, although he still repeated "it's nothing", it was clearly different.
Heng Gongyu couldn't hide the joy on his face: "That's great, Xiao Jiu."
His features were exquisite and striking. When he smiled, the red and gold lines at the corners of his eyes resembled shimmering water ripples, making him incredibly beautiful.
Xiao Jiu raised her hand and gently touched the corner of the other person's eye with her tiny finger: "Fish! Beautiful!"
Heng Gongyu's skin was as white as jade, but in just a few seconds, his cheeks turned bright red: "I...I..."
Xiao Jiu: "It's jade, it's beautiful, it's very nice."
The system, with a sour expression, wrote in front of the Henggong Fish: [You still remember what you said when you named the host? He said you were also jade, very good.]
The flounder was about to burst into flames.
Just as his neck turned bright red, making one wonder if he would faint at any moment, with a soft "plop," the shy and beautiful fish-tailed boy disappeared, leaving behind only a bright red fish.
In the dim sunlight, he stared at them with his round, fish-like eyes, feeling as if he would be sucked dry by the sand at any moment.
Everyone: ......
The Suanni was the first to react: "System, hurry up!"
System: [It's pouring! Stop rushing me!]
When Xiao Jiu came out of the store after changing the water, the system was bickering with the Suanni while raising fish, and it looked very skilled at it.
Xiao Jiu bent down and picked up Taotie, who was waiting beside her.
With that hug, the white sand under Xiao Jiu's feet immediately sank a little.
He didn't notice, but gently stroked the fur on the Taotie's body, and looked up at the bead that was floating in mid-air and emitting a cold light.
If only... there were water.
The moment Xiao Jiu had this thought, his messy hair and the ends of his hair moved slightly.
A wisp of wind appeared in the space, so faint that no one noticed it.
More than an hour later, after finally slowly moving the Henggong fish back to the sand dune to bask in the cool sunlight, Suanni asked in a low voice, "System, can your points still hold up?"
[That's enough for now.]
Now, the water used for the Henggong fish alone consumes 120 points a day, in addition to the system's own power consumption. Even though the price of the soon-to-be-matured Mutant Nymph is not low, it will not be able to support such consumption once it is sold out.
The Suanni's eyes darted around.
If his calculations are correct, the current points are only enough to last until the morning glory harvest.
As for what happens after the harvest...
Suanni suddenly realized something: "You're not thinking of slacking off and running away, are you? Let me make it clear first, you still owe me twenty grain coins. I'm not going to give you credit for taking care of the child."
The system replied indifferently: "Tch, if you don't want to help, then don't. The host still has the Gluttonous Beast and the Horizontal Fish."
"That's not what I meant!" Suanni suddenly snapped.
He wagged his tail in frustration: "What about Xiao Jiu? Are you going to take advantage of his stupidity, secretly die, and then lie to him that you just went to save electricity?!"
The more the lion spoke, the angrier it became, slamming its tail against the white sand and raising clouds of dust.
The system, its secret exposed, felt a little guilty: "It's hibernation, not death..."
The Suanni sneered: "Is there a difference?"
Because Xiao Jiu was always being chased and struck by lightning, and Suanni happened to know some of the inside story of the heavenly lightning, the system had an in-depth conversation with Suanni at that time. Therefore, among this group of non-human creatures with different forms, Suanni is the one who understands the system's functions the most.
System hibernation is an irreversible operation.
Once it goes into hibernation, everything except essential data will be completely erased. Even if it is recharged and restarted, it will not be the same system as before.
"As long as this blood mist remains and the space doesn't collapse, Xiao Jiu will definitely become closer and closer to a human. He will think, have emotions, and have all sorts of feelings."
"So, you want Xiao Jiu to suddenly discover one day that the 'system' that was with him from the beginning is already dead!"
When it said the last few words, Suanni was practically roaring.
The system, which usually refused to be outdone by the Suanni, remained silent for a long time.
The Suanni was so angry that it was panting heavily, but suddenly it seemed to sense something and immediately looked up.
The space shrouded in blood mist is always hazy, but in this space filled with the heavy aura of blood, there is a point of light that is incredibly dreamlike.
The light came from an object called "Moon Spring," which, in the words of the Suanni, was a light bulb that didn't require electricity.
But at this moment, the cold light gradually took on a blue hue, and this silvery-blue light no longer illuminated only a spherical area as before, but spread outwards gently and slowly like a thin veil thrown out.
At the center, the delicate and lustrous bead constantly changes its light purple and silvery-white luster. It floats up and down gently as if it were floating on the surface of water, and the delicate luster on the surface creates a flowing effect.
The blue light, like a ribbon, stretched through the air, and wherever it went, the blood mist avoided it from afar.
The fine, white sand on the ground recedes from both sides when illuminated by blue light, leaving a spot just large enough for the blue light to embed itself.
The Suanni was extremely surprised: "This is...!"
Suddenly, an incomparably clear energy overflowed from the bead, spreading outwards in a circular wave shape.
The Suanni immediately turned its head and shouted, "Watch out!"
The aquamarine ripples moved extremely fast, reaching the foot of the sand dune in an instant.
At the edge of the farmland, Xiao Jiu, who had been holding Taotie, was nowhere to be found. Taotie was lying flat on the ground, its diamond-shaped, blood-red eyes fixed on the blue light.
Taotie's body had simply been restarted, but his mind was still intact. He knew all too well how much energy was contained in that blue light.
What's worse, this energy carries a rich, pure aura, as if it can wash away all the filth in the world.
Unlike the Suanni Henggong fish, the Taotie has always been a vessel of ferocity and malevolence. If it gets hit by this light...
But Taotie did not dodge; he tensed his body and widened his eyes.
One second passed, three seconds passed...
Nothing happened.
After being struck by that blue light, Taotie's world became completely blurred, filled with stars.
He only heard a voice in front of him: "You scared me to death."
He blinked hard, then squinted and saw it was a Suanni.
The Suanni stood directly in front of him, its brown fur bristling, making it look like a frilled lizard at first glance.
Taotie: "Awoo!"
Suanni glanced at him, utterly speechless: "We've known each other for so long, and you still say thank you."
The brown-furred kitten exhaled, hastily shook its fur, and then snatched the glutton away.
Once it was opened, it was discovered that there was a hole where the Taotie had been pressing down, and inside the hole was a tangled mess of black hair.
The Suanni patted its paw upwards, saying, "Come out, come out."
Xiao Jiu, who had been trapped under the sand, twisted and turned, quickly managing to bury his head in the sand. He hadn't even realized what had happened, and just looked at Taotie in confusion: "Doggy?"
The Taotie froze instantly and with a thud, it retracted its head.
Suanni rolled its eyes.
He realized that Taotie originally wanted to protect Xiao Jiu, but his body had not yet recovered and his abilities were limited, so he hurriedly used a crushing attack, directly slamming Xiao Jiu into the sand.
Unexpectedly, the blue light did not harm them at all, which made his "heroic" act of protection seem a bit foolish.
Just as Suanni breathed a sigh of relief and was about to go back to the sand pile, he turned around and froze.
His voice began to tremble as he looked at the scene before him.
"Xiao Xiao, Xiao Jiu, we're in trouble."
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